O.T. maple syrup funny

Last evening I went to a local town of about 60,000 people to stop at a farm store, then get some groceries. Now quite ready to go home, I stoped at a local night spot. I got into a conversation with a guy from out of our area. A man in his late 20's. He was from Atlanta. He was a representative for a software company and was up here breaking in people at the local hospital to the new software that his company had just sold them. When he learned I was a farmer he said "I have to know, what disease do your trees have up here?". I said "tree disease?". He said " yes, on my time off I like to drive around and I see a lot of trees with a big blue I.V. bag hung on them and I was wondering what disease you are treating them for". I wish I was as fast of a thinker as I was in my younger years, I could have laid a real whopper on him.
 
ROFLMAO. With stories like that,you can take over for Jon if he runs out of morning funnies. lol Glad I didn't have coffee in my mouth when I read that.
 
That is funny, but there is one other apparatus I can think of that actually has a purpose for treating dutch elm disease. Its like a manifold, but hosing, with taps that go into the tree, used to inject fungicide into the tree, something he probably never knew of, but he's not too far off actually.
 
There is a treatment for Emerald Ash Borer where they have a container full of chemical that is supposed to kill them.. often attached to the trunk of the tree.this might have a ring of truth and not just someone trying to green ya!
 
He asked an honest question and deserved to be told the truth. I hope you did that. We never know when we may be on the asking side and knowledge is a great thing to spread.
 
Lets look at the facts......
The Sugar Maple only grows in the northeast quarter of our country.
You said this guy was from Atlanta (the south)
Large IV type bags have been used on other type trees in the past to treat disease.

So since you seem to be poking fun at the fact this southerner did not know everything about your northern ways we can assume there are no pictures we could show you from the south (or even another country) that you would not know what it was.
We could also assume that if we could find one picture you did not know we could laugh and poke fun at you.
 
yes , I gave him an honest answer. But it was after I pick myself up from the floor from laughing. Funny thing is he didn't believe me. He was convinced nobody would walk out in the woods, collect sap from a tree and take it home boil to it down when you could just go to the store and buy pancake syrup.
 

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